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britt_zonnebloempit's review against another edition
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
It's hard to connect with a main character you don't know the name of....
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Adult/minor relationship
emily_reads_books92's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship
roaze's review
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I’ll get back to this after I’m done crying….
~A few days later~
Okay done crying here is a bunch of quotes and lines that I liked from the book or felt represented it pretty well.
~A few days later~
Okay done crying here is a bunch of quotes and lines that I liked from the book or felt represented it pretty well.
“I started to picture the world without me in it“ -page 115.
“I added nothing - I had no hopes, no real tangible dreams that would make any lasting impact. If I was gone. Worst case scenario some pizzas wouldn’t be delivered on time. -page 116.
“You don’t have to be sorry. He didn’t die sad.
He died stupid.“-page 120.
“My heads a mess everywhere I go, I seem to find a way to trap myself. Most days, I can ignore it, but like anything really open and forgotten, it begins to rot. There are just too many thoughts, memories. I can’t look at anything and not think of something else.” -page 127.
“Jenny was more a person to me than mum ever had been” -page 136.
*Possible spoilers ahead*
“I love you,” he said “I love you so much and I’m so mad at you and I can’t even tell you how mad I am at you. The other day I woke up and went into our bathroom. The water was all over the floor, you’d left the sink running all night. I went back into the room, ready to fight about it, wanting to fight about it, but when I open the door you were just sitting up in bed, looking out the window. I stood in the doorway for a full five minutes, and you didn’t even turn your head.”
He looked up at me, tears dripping off his cheeks, and I wished he had hit me.
“What do you do in the shed in the backyard every night?”
Hit me, I can’t have this conversation, hit me, please, anything other than this.” -Page 160 to 161.
“Even if I never picked up the phone and heard her voice on the other end, I would’ve found something to lose myself in-If you were pushed off a cliff, you’d grab hold of anything resembling safety.“ - page 189.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Pregnancy
Minor: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Sexual content
mollmccaff's review
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Vomit, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death of parent and Adult/minor relationship
glowupkay1's review
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Minor: Domestic abuse
_kate333's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
this book was actually so amazing!! it was a bit weird at times lmao but it really makes more sense when you read the whole thing. it was really funny and the writing was just PHENOMENAL. like the descriptiveness was just out of this world and i enjoyed it so much. please read this book!!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical content, and Gun violence
Minor: Death of parent and Homophobia
ryanlee's review
dark
funny
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This book is beautifully written and compulsively readable. Plus, I really felt Jane’s malaise and aimlessness and grief, and I admire the author’s ability to convey Jane’s complicated, mixed-up desires for Jenny. There’s so much to love about this book! I get all the rave reviews.
With that said, I don’t feel like book has a resolution, and it leaves readers dangling. I don’t mean that the characters’ lives have to be neat and clean, their futures rosy with possibility. But when a dark and sudden twist(a gun, with all the Chekovian implications that has) is introduced late in the third act, it ratchets up the stakes and deepens the book’s darkness considerably. As I reader, I needed more than a short epilogue to bring me down from that episode.
If you’re in for a dark read—darker even than the premise of a pregnant, fledgling alcoholic teenager who’s grieving the death of her alcoholic father and becomes a stalker—I highly recommend it. The book is funny, and despite the content, it does feel “light” in some ways, at least until the end. But I’ve seen it described as fun and light-hearted and a romp—and those, it certainly is not.
With that said, I don’t feel like book has a resolution, and it leaves readers dangling. I don’t mean that the characters’ lives have to be neat and clean, their futures rosy with possibility. But when a dark and sudden twist
If you’re in for a dark read—darker even than the premise of a pregnant, fledgling alcoholic teenager who’s grieving the death of her alcoholic father and becomes a stalker—I highly recommend it. The book is funny, and despite the content, it does feel “light” in some ways, at least until the end. But I’ve seen it described as fun and light-hearted and a romp—and those, it certainly is not.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, Pregnancy, and Vomit
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
vanlaire's review
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship
alicedr's review
too creepy, no plotline, weird amount of sexual tension between a middle-aged woman and a pregnant teenager, writing style was high key kind of interesting which is why i kept reading it as far as i did
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
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